FOREST AND STREAM 
1025 
NEWS, NOTES & 
COMMENT FROM 
HARD WINTER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
McBride, B. C., June 6, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In spite of a very hard winter, game of all 
descriptions has done very well. With moose, 
caribou, bear and goat we have some of the best 
hunting in British Columbia, and if we only had 
sheep it would be equally as good as the famous 
Cassiar district. 
We also have some very fine fishing along the 
Grand Trunk and Pacific Railroad, and, if you 
want to go some distance from the railroad, the 
"best of lake fishing. 
It may interest you to know that I have three 
hunting parties for this fall, one of which was 
•obtained through my advertisement in Forest and 
Stream. Joe La Salle (Hunter and Guide). 
DUCKS INCREASING IN NEBRASKA. 
Josie, Neb., June 12, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It will probably interest you to know that the 
■new spring game laws have already increased the 
number of ducks in this part of the country. A 
few years more of it and we should have some 
real fall duck shooting. 
I think I ought to add that I consider Forest 
and Stream the best sportsman’s paper in the 
country to-day. John W. Davis. 
GOOD FISHING AT CRANBERRY LAKE. 
Cranberry Lake, N. Y., May 21, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The ice has been out in Cranberry Lake nearly 
a month and though we have had considerable 
bad weather, some very good catches of trout 
have been made. The fish weigh between one and 
two pounds. The fishing has also been good in 
the Oswegatchue River. Worms seem to be the 
only successful lure. J. M. Balderson. 
HE LIKES FOREST AND STREAM. 
Rockford, Ill., May 6, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I think my subscription has just run out, please 
look it up and let me know. Forest and Stream 
is fine, but I miss the old writers. 
Leonard Carleton. 
SEES THE SUN RISE AS THE MOON SINKS. 
Forest and Stream for May contained a photo¬ 
graph of an interior labeled “The Summer Den 
of J. L. Davison, One of Forest and Stream’s 
Distinguished ‘Old Guard.’ ” Mr. Davison has 
called attention to the fact that the picture 
showed simply the fireplace in the living room of 
his summer cottage at Olcott—-a room 16 by 50 
feet, which, as he suggests, “is rather too large 
for a den.” 
He appends an interesting description of the 
den itself, which follows : 
“What I consider my den in the cottage is my 
sleeping-room. It is 10 by 12 feet, and occupies 
the east end of the second floor. There are two 
windows, through which, lying in bed, I can look 
out over Lake Ontario for a hundred miles, and 
see the sun come up out of it. 
“At such an hour one morning, standing on 
the shore of the lake in front of the cottage, I 
saw the sun come up out of the east end of the 
lake. At the same moment, a full round moon 
was sinking into its western end. 
“That is one thing you can not see in your big 
noisy New York. I never expect to see it again. 
“The walls of my room,” Mr. Davison adds, 
“are adorned with many pictures from Forest and 
Stream —and no others. They include the eight 
flashlight pictures of George Shiras, 3rd, and 
Rowland Robinson, drawing a tree on a fungus.” 
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For July, 1916 
| The Leaping Ouananiche-Painting 
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§ jects which won the gold medal at the 
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§ The Leap of the Game Fish. 1031 1 
| By Louis Rhead | 
I Bait Angling for Black Bass. 1033 | 
| By Black Bass 
| The Big Trout of Colorado. 1034 i 
| By Arthur Chapman 
1 Taking the Record Tarpon. 1035 
| By E. L. Evans 1 
I Where One May Be his Own 
j Pathfinder . 1036 1 
| By Seneca | 
[ The Year of the Pointer. 1039 1 
| By A. F. Hochwalt 
| When the Crews Take the Water. . 1041 I 
§ By Jule F. Marshall 
| The Sheriff, the Salmon, and a 
§ Poacher . 1044 § 
| By H. A. Smith | 
| The Gentle Art of Plug Casting. . 1046 g 
| By George L. Buguey 
| The Den. 1047 | 
| Editorial . 1048 1 
| Natural History . 1049 1 
§ The Unbalancer of Nature. 1051 | 
| By John Bernard O’Sullivan 
| The Library . 1054 I 
| Changes in the Migratory Law. . . . 1058 1 
| Nessmuk’s Corner . 10 SR I 
| Revive Interest in Canoeing. 1062 I 
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§ The Southern Handicap. 1066 E 
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READERS OF 
FOREST & STREAM 
GAME CONDITIONS IN NOVA SCOTIA. 
Digby, N. S., June 3, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It may be of interest to you to know that 1,208 
bull moose were reported killed in Nova Scotia 
in the fall of 1915. More than were killed in 
New Brunswick last season. The open season 
on deer will be from October 21st to 31st in this 
Province. We imported deer from New Bruns¬ 
wick some twenty years ago and they are now so 
plentiful that the above open season is allowed. 
The experiment has proved a complete success. 
Some extraordinarily large bucks have been seen. 
I saw last fall a pure white buck. Hope I see 
him again during the open season this fall. 
H. A. P. Smith. 
PRAISE FOR MAY STORIES. 
Minneapolis, May 11, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The May issue is very fine. I admire the cover 
and the contents, particularly “Through the Lake¬ 
lands of Quebec” and Fraser’s “Paradise Far 
North of ‘53’.” 
A. M. SUNDHEIM. 
LONGS FOR THE OUTDOOR LIFE. 
Galesburg, N. D., May 18 , 1916 . 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The outdoors has much charm for me, and I 
nave consequently cherished a very warm and 
friendly feeling for Forest and Stream ever 
since its first publication. I have lived here 
quite a long time, but for several years my family 
has been located on a farm up in Koochiching 
County, Minn., on the bank of the Rainy River. 
I expect to go there very shortly and begin to 
live again more outdoors, where I can see the 
moose tracks in the snow and hear the wolves 
howl at night. 
My place is about thirty miles east of Baud- 
ette, and about a hundred miles east of Hallock, 
where Mr. Hallock first pitched his tent many 
years ago. Northern Minnesota is being rapidly 
developed and all it needs is drainage ditches 
and good roads. These the State is providing, 
spending some five million dollars on this work. 
The land is very fertile and at the same time 
exceedingly cheap, being sold by the State for 
the amount of the taxes, which is less than 
four hundred dollars for a quarter section. It 
is not necessary to live on the property to ob¬ 
tain title, as the State grants a patent as soon 
as the taxes are paid. 
The whole country is booming and if it were 
not for the big United States game preserve the 
moose would soon be exterminated. It is a 
beautiful country, with its cedars and its lakes, 
its moss and its muskegs. I hope you can get 
up here some time and give me the chance to 
show it all to you. 
Meantime, I wish you and Forest and Stream 
much prosperity. Jos. P Whittemore. 
THREE-POUNDERS CAUGHT AT SEBASCO. 
Sebasco, Me., May 23, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Wattuh Lake, on Sebasco Estates, a lake of 
fifty acres, has some good sized lake trout and 
landlocked salmon. A few trout and salmon 
weighing from one and a half to three pounds 
each were recently caught by Mr. J. Albert 
Redlon of Bath, Maine. 
While there are any amount of fish here,_ the 
weather has been so cold they are not rising 
rapidly as yet. We have good bass fishing in 
a lake near by and of course salt water fishing. 
In the fall there is good partridge shooting 
and a great place for ducks of ail kinds on 
the ledges just off shore. Freeman H. Merritt. 
